Airline history from 1981, this page lists 51 airline related events from 1981.
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51 dates in airline history from 1981:
January 03, 1981
Pan Am made its final B.707 flight. View airlines from USA.
January 07, 1981
A B.747 of CAAC lands at JFK, marking the first time since 1949 that a flight from mainland China to the US was performed. View airlines from China.
January 20, 1981
Vayudoot was founded (>Air India). View airlines from India.
January 26, 1981
Vayudoot began operations. View airlines from India.
February 18, 1981
Lamb Airways (Thomas Lamb Airways) (previously LambAir), went bankrupt. View airlines from Canada.
February 20th, 1981
AIRES Colombia was formed (>LATAM Colombia). View airlines from Colombia.
February 23, 1981
AIRES Colombia launched services (>Lan Colombia). View airlines from Colombia.
March 1st, 1981
Point Air was founded. View airlines from France.
March 02, 1981
Japan Air Lines was the first airline to use a computerised flight simulator to train its crews. View airlines from Japan.
March 05, 1981
Mountain West Airlines ceased operations. View airlines from USA.
January 15th, 1981
Sunair, founded by A. Wayne Lackey, who had purchased the charter airline and had grandiose plans but also large debts. It operated out of Ft Lauderdale for only 1 flight. View airlines from USA.
March 28, 1981
Dornier Do 228-100 first flight. View airlines from Germany.
March 29, 1981
British Airways made its last Vickers VC10 flight. View airlines from United Kingdom.
March 31, 1981
Islena Regional Airlines operations start. View airlines from Honduras.
April 1st, 1981
Liard Air, a air charter business was founded by Urs and Marianne Schildknecht in Fort Liard, NWT. View airlines from Canada.
April 05, 1981
Druk Air was founded. View airlines from Bhutan.
April 06, 1981
Air California was rebranded as AirCal (>American Airlines). View airlines from USA.
April 15, 1981
Kabo Air, established in Feb1980 by Dr. Alhaji Muhammadu Adamu Dankabo, restarted operations. View airlines from Nigeria.
April 30, 1981
The original PeoplExpress Airlines commenced operations. View airlines from USA.
May 17, 1981
Corsair was founded as Corse Air International. View airlines from France.
May 18, 1981
Air Bahama, started as International Air Bahama, ceased operations. View airlines from Bahamas.
May 22, 1981
Atlantic Air, founded in 1979, but did not start operations until this date (BEX >Envoy Air). View airlines from USA.
May 28, 1981
Air Tenggara was incorporated. View airlines from Singapore.
June 4th, 1981
Sunworld International Airways was formed (formerly Jetwest International Airways). View airlines from USA.
June 30, 1981
Augsburg Airways, founded in 1980 as Interot A.S., restarted operations. View airlines from Germany.
June 30th, 1981
Lloyd Aviation Jet Charter was formed as charter carrier at Adelaide Airport. View airlines from Australia.
July 01, 1981
Corse Air International, formed on 17May1981, restarted operations (>Corsair International). View airlines from France.
July 1st, 1981
Aero Montecarlo was founded. View airlines from Peru.
July 15, 1981
Fiji Link operations restarted operations as Sunflower Airlines. View airlines from Fiji.
July 15th, 1981
Muse Air, founded by Lamar Muse in 1981, had its inaugural flight from DAL to HOU (>>Southwest Airlines (ii)). View airlines from USA.
July 25, 1981
Compagnie Antillaise d'Affretments Aériens-CAAA was renamed to Societé Nouvelle Air Martinique (=>Air Caraïbes). View airlines from Martinique.
August 7th, 1981
Southern International, the post-bankruptcy successor to Florida Airlines, took over many of Florida's routes and fleet of Martin 404s. View airlines from USA.
August 08, 1981
Florida Air Lines was reorganised as Southern International. View airlines from USA.
August 10th, 1981
Air New Orleans began operations operating Piper Navajo aircraft on routes linking Mobile, New Orleans and Pensacola. View airlines from USA.
August 21st, 1981
Golden Gate Airlines ceased operations, shortly after Swift Aire Lines was merged in. View airlines from USA.
August 31, 1981
Líneas Aéreas de Nicaragua, operating as LANICA, was the national airline from 1945 until it ceased on this date. It was succeeded by Aeronica. View airlines from Nicaragua.
September 01, 1981
Horizon Air, founded in 1981, started operations. View airlines from USA.
September 03, 1981
First flight of the British Aerospace 146. View airlines from United Kingdom.
September 4th, 1981
Ed Beauvais, CEO, founded the company that would become America West ( >>US Airways >>AA (American Airlines)). View airlines from USA.
September 05, 1981
Air Vanuatu, established in early 1981, operated its first flight. View airlines from Vanuatu.
September 26, 1981
First flight of the B.767-200. View airlines from USA.
October 6th, 1981
Bloodstock Air Services was established at Perth as an all-cargo airline. View airlines from Australia.
October 10, 1981
Air Saint Barthelemy started operations ( =>Air Caraïbes). View airlines from Guadeloupe.
October 12, 1981
Great Lakes Airlines began scheduled services with flights between Spencer, Iowa, and Des Moines, Iowa. View airlines from USA.
October 28, 1981
Constellation International Airlines was founded on 27May1978 as Unijet. Renamed to BFS International (Benelux Falcon Service) on this date. View airlines from Belgium.
November 01, 1981
State Airlines began scheduled flights between Ft. Lauderdale and Sarasota. View airlines from USA.
November 9th, 1981
Gulf Central Airlines was founded as Devoe Airways by Jack Devoe. View airlines from USA.
November 25th, 1981
Teire was incorporated. View airlines from Estonia.
December 01, 1981
BPA became Air Queensland. View airlines from Australia.
December 1st, 1981
Southern International Airways was shut down. View airlines from USA.
December 07, 1981
SunState Airlines operations started. View airlines from Australia.